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seantree
01-25-2005, 03:46 PM
I'm modeling a glider of sorts and want the wings to collapse along a track to the rear of the ship. I've tried using "create shape from selection" to turn the track into a spline for the wing supports to follow and used a path constraint to move the support along the track. thing is it does not work properly. I've fiddled with the settings and cannot seem to get it to do what I want. Are there any other techniques usd for doing this? thanks!!!!

FatAssasin
01-25-2005, 07:48 PM
Don't know if this'll help, but you could try rigging the wings to bones (each wing to one bone) and then using a lookat controller on the bone. Use a dummy object that's traveling down the path as the lookat object.

Just a thought.

seantree
01-26-2005, 08:11 PM
thanks!!! I'll give it a try. appreciate it.